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blable2on The end of Insteon and why the smart home keeps faltering

My four full-size ceiling led lights (think old school Florissant size in a square configuration) are independent and triggered by motion with self timed off. Perfect. My front porch lights are similar but just dusk to dawn automatic. Perfect. Oh, the garage door opener is Siri controlled but I can take it off with a bluetooth tag I've been to lazy to setup. Near perfect. Only Google Home is used for IOT to lazily control the temp. I really like my smooth home automation thus far.

blable2on Americans are drowning in spam

Answer call - mute is my go-to for all non-contact calls. Let them pay in time.

blable2on It’s Still Stupidly, Difficult to Buy a ‘Dumb’ TV

Uh oh... this comment brings it to the front of my mind and seems correct.

blable2on Hackers Leak Lichess Source Code

Good 4/1 joke... thought for a moment wow, this company is open alright to the point of a discussion group around their hack! Too good.

blable2on Twelve Labs makes searching inside videos simple and powerful

Tell me you didn't click on that pink "play" button. I sure did.

blable2on Saudi to consider accepting Yuan for oil sales

An insinuation in the opening para is that Foxconn is Chinese; it is Taiwanese.

blable2on Ask HN: What will it take to destroy the ads market?

YT Premium I can confirm it has changed my outlook. Makes it super enjoyable now and has for years.

blable2on Americans born in 1991 are special

SIMulation planned? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30671232

blable2on My lizard brain is no match for infinite scroll

Explain "Paints" as this primate can't understand.

blable2on There’s no need to change passwords if they're robust, unique and not breached

Agree. Further, I'm getting sick of the forced requirements for them.

blable2on My New Old Macintosh SE/30 Computer

Mine was 6K USD new in 1989 I think.

blable2on Show HN: I made a web game called Almost Pong

OK, well done but boy I'm really bad at playing games. ha ha

blable2on Ink/Stitch

Thank you for introducing me to this. I've been looking for this very function.

blable2on LibreOffice running natively in the browser via WebAssembly

My copy/paste stopped working after trying this out.

blable2on Newegg has a bit of a scandal on its hands

How has your eBay buying gone?

blable2on Newegg has a bit of a scandal on its hands

Parent company is a mainland Chinese. Does that help?

blable2on Love is biological bribery?

The title made me chuckle. *Must read* as it has a "Love Scientist" with photo.

blable2on Ask HN: What remote work dreams didn't come true for you?

I hear ya... It was ok for me; 1 year 3 months. I just missed my workmates is all. I could do 99% of what I did before (had some minor hardware duties).

blable2on Andromeda Invaders: A 1980s-arcade-style game using HTML5, Canvas, Web Audio

Oh gosh, well done mate! I played it just like back-in-the-day... I'm terrible. Lvl 3

blable2on Starship Update [video]

You just know their next CEO is going to be boring as hell.

blable2on To my surprise and elation, the Webb Space Telescope is going to work

I felt the very same way due to the same reasons in the story.

blable2on RegExr: Learn, Build and Test Regex

Just thinking out loud... can't I just ask the google "Hey Google, in PERL, show me a regex to find the first occurrence of a semicolon to the next period."?